#A500 512k to 1 Meg? help
While perusing the inner workings of my A500 (rev 6A on the board) in
anticipation of a hardware upgrade, I noticed the legend "512k/1 Meg"
heading a bank of 256k x 4 chips. What was intriguing about this was that
only 4 DIPs were visible, the other "sockets" being filled in with solder.
Having heard from a friend that the 500s are equipped with a 1 Meg Agnus, I
immediately have concluded that this motherboard's internal capacity is 1
megabyte, and to upgrade my system to a meg of CHIP RAM (still a bit
confused from PC days: why not call it "display memory"?) I need only
appropriate the necessary chips (256k x 4, 80 ns or thereabouts) and four
matching capacitors and add them to the motherboard.
Is this a recommended path, or should I hire a tech to install the
chips? Or, am I overlooking something else, and am I headed to a possible
disaster? Any suggestions/experience relating/comments would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanx for your time!
Peter